Edgar
Allan
(Not Allen)
Poe
!!!!!!
100
Easy solution?
Panacea!!!!!!!!!!!! OH, YEAH!!!
100
Exact, careful, attending thoroughly to details...
SCRUPULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!
100
This word means "crept around"
SKULKED, obviously!
100
Poe is associated with EERIE supernatural tales. Another word for EERIE is...
UN-Can-Can-Canny!
100
The opposite of endless is...
Finite. It's finite! Finite!
200
What is another word for water into which carbon dioxide gas under pressure has been dissolved?
Soda water / carbonated water...
200
Poe is considered to be the inventor of the ________________ genre. Would Arthur Conan Doyle agree?
The detective genre...
200
Many people refer to Mr. Luther as all-knowing. In other words, he is...
OMNISCIENT
200
Lake Erie is somewhat between what two great lakes?
Ontario and Huron!!!!
200
An accomplishment / achievement / fulfillment...
Attainment
300
Not able to be wounded or hurt...
INVULNERABLE
300
To give or pass on as an inheritance...
BAHHHH - QUEATH!!!!!!!! (bequeath)
300
Spiteful, showing ill will, malicious, wicked, SINISTER!!!
malevolent
300
To move toward one point...
Converge. Anyone who is anyone knows that!
300
Associated / connected...
AFFILIATED
400
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YEAH! DOUBLE JEP JEPZ! How much are you willing to wager?
What is the name of the bacteria behind the Bubonic Plague? Yersinia pestis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
400
To erase, annihilate, destroy!
EXPUNGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
400
Proud and contemptuous / snobbish / showing scorn because of a feeling of superiority
Supercilious
400
The Masque of the Red Death was published in __________
1842. Everyone knows that.
400
Edgar Allan Poe was really into cryptography! What is cryptography???
The study of secure communications!
500
Poe was born in Boston in ______________. He really disliked this poet who lived in Cambridge. (accused him of plagiarism!)
1809, bro! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Extremely Super and Amazing Bonus Question: Where is Longfellow's grave? (name the cemetery)
500
How old was good ol' Virginia Clemm when she died of tuberculosis (aka consumption)?
TWENTY-FOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
500
I can't believe you picked this category for 500 points! You lose 500 points! Better luck next time, pal!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
500
A _______________ is a region of repetitive nucleotide sequences at each end of a chromosome, which protects the end of the chromosome from deterioration or from fusion with neighboring chromosomes. Its name is derived from the Greek nouns telos (τέλος) "end" and merοs (μέρος, root: μερ-) "part".
What is a telomere!!!!!!!! Telomeres have been linked with aging and disease and, in the case of mice, genetic manipulations that shorten or lengthen telomeres result, respectively, in decreased or increased longevity.
500
The opposite of a fretful attitude...
Nonchalant
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